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The minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve from an arbitrary initial state to its orthogonal state is known as the quantum speed limit (QSL) time. In this work, we consider the model in which a single qubit moves inside a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Maryam Hadipour , Soroush Haseli , Hazhir Dolatkhah , Saeed Haddadi

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians play a crucial role in describing open quantum systems and nonequilibrium dynamics. In this paper, we derive trade-off relations for systems governed by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, focusing on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Tomohiro Nishiyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Quantum speed limits set the maximal pace of state evolution. Two well-known limits exist for a unitary time-independent Hamiltonian: the Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin bounds. The former restricts the rate according to the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Gal Ness , Andrea Alberti , Yoav Sagi

Quantum speed limits are the boundaries that define how quickly one quantum state can transform into another. Instead of focusing on the transformation between pairs of states, we provide bounds on the speed limit of quantum evolution by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Abolfazl Farmanian , Vahid Karimipour

Quantum-speed-limit (QSL) time captures the intrinsic minimal time interval for a quantum system evolving from an initial state to a target state. In single qubit open systems, it was found that the memory (non-Markovian) effect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Chen Liu , Zhen-Yu Xu , Shiqun Zhu

By a quantum speed limit one usually understands an estimate on how fast a quantum system can evolve between two distinguishable states. The most known quantum speed limit is given in the form of the celebrated Mandelstam-Tamm inequality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Sergio Albeverio , Alexander K. Motovilov

The speed of evolution between perfectly distinguishable states is thoroughly analyzed in a closed three-level (qutrit) quantum system. Considering an evolution under an arbitrary time-independent Hamiltonian, we fully characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jesica Espino-González , Francisco J. Sevilla , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

The minimum evolution time between multi-qubit quantum states is estimated for non-Markovian quantum channels. We consider the maximally coherent pure and mixed states as well as multi-qubit $X$ states as initial states and discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 K. G. Paulson , Subhashish Banerjee

Quantum speed limits (QSLs) provide lower bounds on the minimum time required for a process to unfold by using a distance between quantum states and identifying the speed of evolution or an upper bound to it. We introduce a generalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Niklas Hörnedal , Nicoletta Carabba , Kazutaka Takahashi , Adolfo del Campo

We discuss quantum speed limits (QSLs) for finite-dimensional quantum systems undergoing general physical processes. These QSLs were obtained using Schatten $\alpha$-norms, firstly exploiting geometric features of the quantum state space,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Alberto J. B. Rosal , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , Diego Paiva Pires

The quantum speed limit (QSL), or the energy-time uncertainty relation, describes the fundamental maximum rate for quantum time evolution and has been regarded as being unique in quantum mechanics. In this study, we obtain a classical speed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Manaka Okuyama , Masayuki Ohzeki

The Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin quantum speed limits are two well-known evolution time estimates for isolated quantum systems. These bounds are usually formulated for fully distinguishable initial and final states, but both have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Niklas Hörnedal , Ole Sönnerborn

Quantum speed limits set fundamental lower bounds on the time required for a quantum system to evolve between states. Traditional bounds, such as those by Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin, rely on state distinguishability and become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Ole Sönnerborn

We study the minimum time related to the quantum speed limit that characterizes the evolution of an open quantum system with the help of a simple model in the short and long time limits. We compare in particular the situation corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Jean Richert , Tarek Khalil

Quantum mechanics sets fundamental limits on how fast quantum states can be transformed in time. Two well-known quantum speed limits are the Mandelstam-Tamm and the Margolus-Levitin bounds, which relate the maximum speed of evolution to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Gal Ness , Manolo R. Lam , Wolfgang Alt , Dieter Meschede , Yoav Sagi , Andrea Alberti

In this paper, we propose a concept to use a quantum speed limit (QSL) as a measure of robustness of states, defining that a state with bigger QSL is more robust. In this perspective, it is important to have an explicitly-computable QSL,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Kohei Kobayashi , Naoki Yamamoto

We present a class of generalized entropic quantum speed limits based on $\alpha$-$z$-R\'{e}nyi relative entropy, a real-valued, contractive, two-parameter family of distinguishability measures. The quantum speed limit (QSL) falls into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Jucelino Ferreira de Sousa , Diego Paiva Pires

The speed limit provides an upper bound for the dynamical evolution time of a quantum system. Here, we introduce the notion of quantum acceleration limit for unitary time evolution of quantum systems under time-dependent Hamiltonian. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Arun Kumar Pati

Finding the solutions of the equations that describe the dynamics of a given physical system is crucial in order to obtain important information about its evolution. However, by using estimation theory, it is possible to obtain, under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 D. V. Villamizar , A. C. S. Leal , R. Auccaise , E. I. Duzzioni

We propose a quantum state distance and develop a family of geometrical quantum speed limits (QSLs) for open and closed systems. The QSL time includes an alternative function by which we derive three QSL times with particularly chosen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zi-yi Mai , Zheng Liu , Chang-shui Yu